It's horrifying that more than two thirds of the population are overweight, some of these morbidly obese.
Looking at the contents of shopping trolleys of fat people, it's absolutely not surprising: whole cartons of Coke, packets of chips, other fried, pre-cooked food, cakes, sweet biscuits and virtually no fresh fruit, vegetables, lean meat or fish.
There's plenty of nutritional education available so it must be that people simply don't care. Maybe it's part of the entitlement society that they believe 'someone' will find a pill to fix them when the inevitable disease processes occur.
Even such bizarre realities as crematoria having to modify their furnaces to accommodate the super large coffins that manufacturers are having to make, and modifications to ambulances, hospital trolleys and beds, because people are so obese. I don't understand how you could be so grossly overweight and not do something about it. Must be damned uncomfortable quite apart from the visual aspect.
Whereu, great comments in your post. Yes, I remember cycling about 15 kms each way to school, being outdoors all the time when weather permitted, etc. And I remember very, very few fat people. Diabetes was a rare disease. Now we are seeing pre-pubescent children treated for both diabetes and hypertension because they are so fat/
